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By Al Globus NSS Representative to the Alliance for Space Development [copy of this paper in PDF] Abstract The Alliance for Space Development (ASD) has...
Contestants (ages 10 to 18) in the 13th annual Reach for the Stars ~ National Rocket Competition (www.RocketCompetition.com) built and launched their own solid-fuel powered...
NSS Space Development Talk NSS Executive Vice President Alfred Anzaldua gave a talk to a group in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico about NSS priorities for...
Space Basics By Dale Skran (with a thank you to Stan Rosen, Randy Gigante, Hoyt Davidson, and Bruce Pittman for their suggestions!) Copyright 2019 A...
In noting the parallels between debris or pollution in the seas of the world and debris in orbit, but also the lack of mechanisms in...
By Dale Skran, Chair, NSS Executive Committee I recently gave a talk titled “New Rides to the Moon” at the Morris Museum Astronomical Society in...
By Melissa Silva In what will likely be one of the final “firsts” in Earth-orbital spacewalking, at 7:38 a.m. EDT yesterday, astronauts Christina Koch and...
By Dale Skran Copyright 2019 On October 9th, a Russian Proton lofted Northrup Grumman’s first satellite life-extension vehicle from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Mission...
Former Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, A Space Age pioneer and the first human to perform an extravehicular activity, or spacewalk, died today, October 11, at...
From Dale Skran, Chair of the NSS Executive Committee: Karlton Johnson, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the National Space Society, has a great...
Opinion by Dale L. Skran Just before Elon Musk made his impressive Starship progress update, NASA Administrator Bridenstine tweeted out the following: This statement left...
By Dale Skran On the evening of Saturday September 28th, Elon Musk provided an exciting update on Starship progress at Boca Chica, Texas. By the...
Back in 1966, Luna 9 became the first spacecraft to soft-land on the Moon. Apogee Books has provided an English-language NASA translation of a detailed report originally released by the USSR Academy of Sciences.
Meyer’s academic textbook is loaded with numerous photographs, diagrams, charts, and graphs. There are chapters on subjects such as farm machines, animal and fungi production, plant and algae production, and space menus. The farming techniques outlined in the book can be applied to lunar, Martian, or rotating space settlements.
Apogee Books has reissued its volume on Surveyor for the program’s 60th anniversary. The book is a wonder, containing a veritable treasure trove of documents on every conceivable facet of the Surveyor program.
We are at the cusp of building an orbital industrial infrastructure and establishing human settlements in space. This book investigates what it takes to do that.
By Burt Dicht NSS Space Coast Correspondent Image: Starship 13 after “landing” in the Indian Ocean. Last week I had the opportunity to speak to...
Today, on the 57th anniversary of the Apollo Moon landing, this inspiring song commemorating the past and the future of our presence on the Moon...
The National Space Society (NSS) today announced that it is delivering a letter to Congress and the Administration addressing concerns and recommendations regarding NASA’s draft...
The National Space Society invites you to the next Space Forum Thursday, July 23, 2026, 8:00 pm to 9:15 pm EST Artemis II and Our...
